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hC Guard #1: *Out of its way!* <**OOOOOUUUUU**> hC Guard #2 (into a walkie-talkie): Come in, Unit 1! We have Torg and Riff pinned down! Flank them! <*BLAM! BLAM!*> -- (Oasis dives over the desk, in front of the guards shooting at Riff and Torg; Killum follows her with the sonic weapon, catching the guards in the beam; they shudder and fall apart in the sonic disturbance) <***OOOOOUUU***> hC Guard #2: I repeat, *flank theaaARRGGHG!* -- Riff: (*)gasp(*) You had to use the shotgun, didn't (*)gasp(*) you? Torg: It was neat looking. Riff (swiping the shotgun from Torg): *Gimmie that!* <*Swipe*> -- Torg: Just because you work for Hereti-Corp doesn't mean you /always/ get the coolest weapons. (From around the other side of the desk, Oasis hears "work for Hereti-Corp" and alerts) -- (Oasis whirls and prepares to blast Riff with the laser cannon she's holding) Oasis: *Die, Hereti-Corp scum!* Torg (slapping his forehead): I did not just say that. -- (Torg dives over Riff and forces the barrel of the laser cannon away from him; The Hereti-Corp robot approaches the desk) Torg: *Oasis! Don't do it! You promised not to hurt anybody!* Riff: */Earg!/ Get off me!* -- Oasis (appearing surprised and innocent): Torgy? -- Oasis (appearing angry and dangerous): *Override B-1!* -- (The Hereti-Corp robot comes around the desk; Killum powers up the sonic weapon in the left hand; Riff tries to roll out of the way, but is trapped under Torg and Oasis) Oasis: Torgy? *Override B-1!* Torgy? *Override B-1!* Torgy? *Override B-1!* Killum: Someone's CD is skipping. Need a hand? <**OOOU...**> --- Gwynn (driving Riff's truck): Killum, you bastard! - <***WHAM!***> - (Gwynn fires the truck's laser cannon and rams into the robot; the robot flies up over the hood of the truck and its arm falls back) <**...UUUOOUUU**> <**ZAPPO!**> -- Riff: *Gwynn! Get out of the truck! When that sonic wave hits the weapons, ammo, and explosives in the back of that...* -- Killum: Nuts. -- (As the robot falls into the bed of the truck, Gwynn leaps from the driver's side; the truck and robot explode in a fireball) <***FOOSH!***> Killum: **YEARGH!** <**...OOUUO~**> -- (Riff, Torg, and Oasis stand up, dazed; Gwynn staggers up, crisped, her hair smoldering) Torg: "All the King's horses and all the King's men..." Riff (dazed from the explosion): Whose truck was that anyway? Gwynn: I didn't do it! | Flag | ||||
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Katie: /Safety?/ OK, here's number *three* of the ten things I hate about you. You're some programmed gymnastic assassin android who only wants to destroy Hereti-Corp yet spends her life hiding us from them. You could go off at any moment. -- Oasis (surprised): I am not and /could/ not! Katey: But /sure,/ we'll go. Katey (pulling a soda out of the paper bag sitting next to her on the bench): Let me just finish this soda I picked up from a local pizza place... (The soda has the House of Cheese / Heretic Corp logo (hC) on it) -- Oasis (whipping out a short knife; crazy-angry): **OVERRIDE B-1** === NOTE: Ref: _Override B-1_ <http://www.sluggy.info/search/?s=Override+B-1>. | Flag | ||||
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Kareen (reading from the book, which is now titled "Katie's Knocked Out Bedtime Stories | A Casserole of Knives"; Katie taps on her iPhone and acts like she's ignoring her mother): "That's not a casserole. It's a casserole dish full of knives. Also you're Oasis," said the bad Hereti-Corp agent. "Override B-1," replied Oasis! <TAC><TIK><TIC> -- "Katie's Knocked Out Bedtime Stories": Our long lost Oasis had returned to us! She uttered the words "Override B-1" and slaughtered all the Hereti-Corp agents. And then we were on the run again. This time, together. -- "Katie's Knocked Out Bedtime Stories": Occasionally she would run into Hereti-Corp agents. Or Signs from a pizza place bearing the Hereti-Corp logo. And time after time, be it agent or sign, Oasis would stab them all with an "Override B-1". (Oasis stabbing an hC agent) <STAB> <STAB> <STAB> <STAB> (Oasis stabbing an hC sign) <STAB> <STAB> <STAB> <STAB> -- Katie: Would Oasis have hurt the innocent people /*inside*/ the restaurant, Mom? Kareen: We don't know. She never went into one. Newspaper (sitting atop the recycling bin in the other room): The Paper News | 7 DIE IN PIZZA FRANCHISE MORNING ATTACK | Seven employees of the House of Cheese Pizza Franchise were stabbed to death in the early morning before the <obscured>ranchise open<obscured>... -- Kareen: She /did/ stick a knife in our new television when the House of Cheese pizza commercial came on. Katie: Maybe she hates pizza? -- Katie: Mom? *She's not going to kill all the pizza will she?* Kareen: Rumor has it she's killed ice-cream in the past. We have to accept that no food is safe. -- Katie: But are *we* safe? Kareen: Very. Let me finish the story, hun! === NOTE: Ref: The House of Cheese Logo (_1_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20061129>) (_2_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20061203>) | _The Icecream [sic: should be "Ice cream"]_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20000425> | _Evidence of more recent agents lost in pursuit of Oasis and the Zalias_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20150724>. | Flag | ||||
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-- Oasis (sadly): Because when I die I come back. No one else comes back. Feng didn't. --- </Begin flashback> (A shot is fired) - (The bullet strikes Feng in his temple; the blow knocking his glasses off) - (Feng lies dead on the ground in a pool of blood) </End flashback> --- Oasis (sadly): People personally close to me die. --- </Begin flashback> <**chuf**> <chuf> (A dagger is thrust into Monica/Erin's back) - (As Monica momentarily stand in shock, we can see that she has a hC (meant to be House of Cheese) baseball cap on) - (Monica dead on the ground, while Oasis, wearing a 'little red riding hood' cloak, stands over the body) -- (An hC goon in the foreground looks concerned as Oasis appears in the doorway in the background) </End flashback(s)> --- Oasis: People physically close to me die. | Sometimes by my hand. Not by my will. | So I keep you safe. But keep you distant. It made sense then. It still does. I should shut up. Katie: "By your hand not by your will." Override B-1, right? How's /*that*/ work? -- Oasis (bitterly): Dr. Steve brainwashed me to kill Hereti-Corp people. Katie: "Dr. Steve." Your father was Dr. Steven Hereti, right? Oasis: Yes. -- Katie (flipping through a notebook labeled "Katie's Notes"): After we escaped and before we lost internet I did a lot of Hereti-Corp research. I wrote a lot down... -- Katie: Here it is! Dr. Steven Hereti was the founder of Hereti-Corp. Later he was forced out by shareholders. He vanished. -- Katie: So it looks like Dr. Steve hated Hereti-Corp for "betraying him". Clearly Override B-1 is connected to revenge. But how does it work /*exactly?*/ === NOTE: Ref: _Feng_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090414> | _Erin/Monica_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090506>. | Flag | ||||
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-- Oasis: For me it's like I go into a dream state, like when I come back to life. I either blank out completely, or I remember things hazy like a dream that fades quickly. It's only recently that I can drum up any memories of what happens during an 'Override B-1' event. Katie: You have a dream while you're dead? -- Oasis (narrating): No... I... I die, and everything stops. -- Oasis (narrating): Then I fade in to running through the woods. Like I am waking up from a dream. -- Oasis (narrating): Except that I'm running. In the woods. Sometimes the exact same woods. In the exact same clothes. -- Oasis: The last time I came back from the dead all I could think of was that Feng's murder, and a distant voice of your mom begging for help. -- Oasis (narrating): I had to find you. And on the way something terrible happened. | Again. (Flashback to Oasis standing in front of a House of Cheese franchise) === NOTE: Ref: panel 6 _OASIS! SAVE KATIE!!!_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/090415>! | Flag | ||||
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(hC vehicles -- vans, trucks, cars -- in a convoy) -- Sami: Stop already, Urch! This is not a snow-jogging suit! I'm overheating! Urch: It shouldn't even be snowing. Isn't it spring or something? Damn weather. Keep moving, Sami! -- Urch: We were in charge of these miles of woods. If the bosses find out we've been relaxing on their dime instead of looking for Oasis... Sami (pulling off her ski mask): They're *not* going to find out! We've been here for weeks! *None* of our 2-man teams can find her because she *doesn't want to be found.* We're not going to get blamed unless you do something suspicious... -- Sami: *...Like running through the woods like a nut!* -- Urch: /*Everyone*/ is on their way as we speak! I want to know the terrain well enough before they arrive. Sami: And if we /*do*/ run into Oasis, /*I*/ don't want to be caught off guard! You know the rumor that she's a robot built to kill everyone who works for Hereti-Corp! -- Sami: /*And we work for Hereti-Corp!*/ Urch: /*"Oh eek! Override B-2!"*/ -- Oasis (standing by a nearby stream, fishing): Override B-1. Urch: Whatever. -- (Urch turns white as he realizes that they just found Oasis...; a fish nibbles on Oasis' line) <bob bob> === NOTE: On "Sami" and "Urch": Congratulations to Samantha and "Person Known Only As Urchin!" Samantha won our Dragon*Con SBG Sluggy Cameo contest in 2007 and it's taken THIS LONG for me to figure out a glorious way to kill her off. Similar to _Thalia and Clint,_ <http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070301> Samantha wanted to gift the cameo to her friend Urchin and I decided (with her permission) I'd cameo them both. Wait a minute! They're not dead yet! Maybe in a twist they'll survive! Tune in tomorrow to find out! | Flag | ||||
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Schlock: I have a lot of work to finish up and tomorrow we're going to get an early start. Frog: Right. I was noticing the teams don't seem equipped to capture Oasis. No tranq-guns, no nets or cages. Just bullets and missiles. -- Schlock: I suppose it is time to bring you into the loop on this, Frog. We need to start a dialogue with Oasis, not capture her. Our agents don't know this. Frog: /*What?!?*/ -- Schlock (off panel): Oasis doesn't talk to agents; she only kills them due to "Override B-1". Yet it's clear after the years of searching that I need all my agents to find her. Every agent will be equipped with a monitor/vidcom unit mounted on their chest. (The agent in Watchtower 03 is dead) -- Schlock (off panel): We'll be able to monitor what they see and communicate through it. The moment contact is made I will order all units to return to base. (Another agent dead in the snow; stabbed with marshmallow sticks) -- Schlock (off panel): She'll kill every agent she can, but most will return safe and sound. And when the override clears from her head, Kusari will gain her attention through the vidcoms on the bodies surrounding her. (All of the tents except one are deflated and stained with blood) -- Frog: Are you /*mad?!?*/ You're throwing away our people for /*that?!?*/ What makes you think she'll even /listen/ to us? Schlock: We have her family. Frog: What do you even *need* from her? Schlock (looking at a photo of Riff): I need her to assassinate a friend. Frog: /*Dear Lord-on-the-lilypad, Irving!*/ -- Schlock: I will take out anything in my way, Frog, friend or not. Remember that. Frog: /*No!*/ I just think there are /*easier*/ and cheaper ways to get that done! You've got to have, like, /twenty murderers/ on speed-dial! Schlock: Riff must be eliminated by Oasis' hand for my plan. *That is all you need to understand.* Frog: *Some of my most valued staff is out in those woods tonight. *Corsica is out there, dammit!* And stop rhyming! It's unbecoming!* -- Schlock: As I said, Frog, if everything goes as planned we'll only lose a handful of our people. <*BEEP-klik*> <KLIK> Schlock (into the intercom): Yes? -- hC Agent (off panel; over the intercom): /Sir! Oasis launched an assault against one of the base camps in the cover of darkness! *She's slaughtering everybody!*/ -- Frog: */Irving? What have you unleashed on us? CORSICA!/ I'M COMING TO /SAVE YOUUUUUU!/* -- Schlock: Drat. | Wake the prisoners. | Frog is not allowed to leave the building. Footnote: bROKEN | Part 5 | "Phoenix Unleashed" | End === NOTE: "_But if Riff were to die at the hands of Oasis..._ <http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=081210>" Ref | Flag | ||||
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Caption: MARCH 2008 | Home of Dr. Schlock | Piscataway, NJ (On desk are DVDs, in sleeves; the top sleeve is labeled: "Herti-Corp Surveillance Video | Clearance: Ultra-Violet | Ayleeorgnet: Offices | 06.23.2002 1800-2400 | DVD"; the sleeve below it looks to be labeled similarly but "1200-1800 | DVD") --- (Three television monitors (presumably replay of one of these DVDs in sequence) show two Hereticorp guards and Oasis) - <[ZOOM]> Herticorp Guard: We can't call for reinforcements! We *are* the reinforcements! | *There she is! /OPEN FIRE!/* - (Oasis moving adeptly as a machine gun fires at her) <**budda-budda-budda!**> - Oasis: /*OVERRIDE B-1*/ --- Sound Effect (from DVD; off panel): **Stabbity Stab >Glitch<** (Dr. Schlock looks noticeably perturbed) <[PAUSE]> -- Dr. Irving Schlock (thinking): Step one of operation "The Schlock Triangle" is to get physical custody of Oasis, alive. But in the past no agents of Hereti-Corp could get close to her without her getting that "override" and slaughtering them. Video Screen (completely awash in red): [PAUSE] -- Dr. Schlock (thinking): Daedalus' plan was to use the Herti-Corp logo at all the pizza franchises so we'd just wait for one of the fast-food pizza joints to get decimated as an early warning and location system. What a sweetheart. -- Dr. Schlock (thinking): So far she hasn't "triggered" any of them. Where could she be? <***DOMP***> Dr. Schlock (as a laser cannon is shoved into his ear): **eep!** -- Riff: Hey Schlock! What's new? Dr. Schlock: *NOTHING! NOTHING AT ALL! NO NEW JOB YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT OR ANYTHING...* -- Dr. Schlock: *HOW THE HELL DID YOU FIND ME?!? */HOW DO YOU ALWAYS FIND ME?!?/** Riff: The defensive nanites in your blood. Bun-Bun told me about them after the "Kiki Virus" caper. They give off a slight, yet traceable signal. Dr. Schlock: YOU TELL ME? JUST LIKE THAT? Riff: You never asked. -- Dr. Schlock: ***I DID SO!!!!*** Riff: Maybe I like you now. Dr. Schlock: *Enough to stop /doing it?/* Riff: Fine. -- Dr. Schlock: *How about I also ask you to stop sticking your laser cannon in my face?!?* Riff: But... but your ear hair swabs the inner barrel so nice! -- Dr. Schlock: ***QUIT IT!!!!*** Riff: Ew! Now that I /really/ think about it, no problem. -- Riff: So, what gory horror B-flick are you watching? Dr. Schlock: **NOTHING! WHAT ARE *YOU* WATCHING?** uh... Why are you here? Video Screen Remote: [OFF] -- Riff: We were working so well together back before Aylee destroyed the house. I thought you might want to help me with a new robot project I'm working on. -- Dr. Schlock: A... robot project...? Riff: The Mark 19. Drawing it up from scratch! -- Dr. Schlock: /"Mark 19?"/ What happened to the other, like, *ten* of them? Riff: I don't want to talk about it. </Pause flashback> === NOTE: References: Daedalus "Oasis Slaughter Tracking System" (_Panel 8_ <http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=061203>). Schlock's _nanites_ <<http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000121>. Schlock _protects his nanites from Aylee's EMP_ <http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010603>. Riff finds Schlock: (_1_ <http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020604>) (_2_ <http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020614>) (_3_ <http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070305>) Schlock and Riff _sharing tech <http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070213>. _Riff mentions to Torg after this flashback about Schlock's with [sic: should be "involvement with" (or something similar)] the Mark 19_ <http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=081007>. | Flag | ||||
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-- Oasis (narrating): Very early in the morning... The place hadn't opened yet... Fast food employees in Hereti-Corp uniforms... - Oasis (narrating): Innocents. The only difference, there were seven this time instead of five. - Oasis (narrating): One of them was barely older than you. -- Oasis (staring at her hands): I faded out to my voice saying 'Override B-1' and faded in to bodies on the floor and blood all over my hands. -- (Katie stares in horror) -- Oasis: You wanted this talk. Well you got it. Katie: But now you just stab the Hereti-Corp logo sign when we go by the pizza place! -- Oasis: Like I said, the 'override' triggers when I perceive a Hereti-Corp presence. I just... limit my perception. When I see that logo I focus on it, like Feng taught me. Focus. -- Oasis (in emotional pain): And I don't think past it. I don't think past the sign to the workers and customers inside. -- Katie (alarmed): Even the /customers...?/ When I held up the soda with that logo on it, back at the train station... Oh my God, I was so *stupid!* I'm /*so*/ sorry! -- Katie: But you found a way to /'loophole though [sic: should be "through"] the brainwashing. Is that why you've been able to keep from chasing after Torg? -- Oasis (clamping her hand over Katie's mouth; tears streaming down her face): Wait, are you suggesting Dr. Steve brainwashed me to *love Torg?* /**HOW DARE YOU!!!!**/ === NOTE: Refs: _5 dead (tv report)_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090429> | _7 dead (newspaper headline)_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20160818> | All part of _Daedalus' plan to track Oasis_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20061203>. Also, if you missed it, _Panel 2_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20160901>. | Flag | ||||
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=== Riff: Torg, we've got to talk about Aylee. Torg: Riff, if it's about taking her out, I'm ready now. She's... -- Bert (getting flung across the room by Cloney): *Up! Up! And crotchway!* Torg: Riff? Since when can Bert fly? (Riff readies the shotgun) <*CHAKIT*> -- Riff: *Above us!* <**BLAM!**> -- Dr. Irving Sclock (now in Cloney's grasp): **Halp!** A Hereti-Corp employee has me! Oasis: **Override B-1!** <CHAKIT> | Flag | ||||
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(Rain. Kusari approaches a car in the window of which (inset panel) can be seen a dead heretiCorp employee with Oasis' knife in either his head or neck and his unfired gun in his bloody hand) Kusari walking in the water sound effects: ****SHHHHH SHHHHH SHHHHH**** -- Oasis approaching with dancing feet sound effects: ***fash fash fash*** -- (Kusari examines the agent's gun) -- (Kusari uses the window to vault onto the roof) -- (Kusari (into her radio mic): The surveillance team is dead. Chen (off panel; over the radio): *This is unacceptable.* There *must* be a way around "Override B-1". -- Kusari (into her radio mic): We've tracked Oasis' insanity to unrequited love of Torg and jealousy of Zoë. Do you want to give her Torg instead? Chen (off panel; over the radio): You know we can't do that now. He's too important. We'll try your theory, just... don't let her make visual contact with you, Kusari. <***SHHHSHHHHH***> -- (Kusari vaults towards Oasis' window) Kusari: As you wish, but you forget which of us is more dangerous, Chen. <***KRAKOW!***> (lightening and thunder) | Flag | ||||
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-- (A chain flies through the air) -- (The chain coils round Zoë's neck, dragging her backwards) -- Kusari: For my mission to succeed, you must die, Zoë. Zoë: Gak -- (Zoë's hand clutching at nothing) -- (Zoë's hand begins to droop; Oasis opens an eye and sees what's happening) -- Oasis: **Override B-1!** -- (Red splotch) | Flag | ||||
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<**THOOM!**> <**THOOM!**> <**CRASH!**> -- Gwynn: That robot is going to rip you guys apart. Chen: You forget we have the schematics on everything Riff has made. Chen: We know the flaws. -- Chen (narrating): All we have to do is shoot off the transformer for the magnetic shielding... (Killum takes aim) - <**blam!**> - <*ting*> Chen (narrating): And the robot will be susceptible to electromagnetics! Chen: *EMP units! Move in.* -- <***TZZZT!***> -- <Sssssssss> (The fried robot opens up, revealing someone inside) -- Oasis: *Yawn!* -- (Insane manifestation of Oasis leans back with a contented restful look in her eyes...) -- (...then quickly transforms into a very angry Oasis) Oasis: *OVERRIDE B-1!* -- (Oasis does a salto out of robot towards the Hereti-Corp employees) Killum: *OH SH*...* | Flag | ||||
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Oasis (narrating a scene from Kusari and Oasis' fight): She claimed to be my sister, an assassin from Hereti-Corp, named Kusari. -- Oasis (still narrating, her fighting Hereti-Corp agents same night): I kill any Hereti-Corp agent I run into. Anyone wearing that stupid logo. My father made it so I have no choice. </End flashback> -- Feng: Do you believe she is your sister? Oasis: Was, Feng, you /know/ that, /was/ my sister. I believe she told me *her* truth. -- Oasis: And I took her head off. -- </Flashback> Oasis (narrating): Or so I hear. That day was foggy too. Oasis (in "Fire & Rain" storyline; the flashback scene is blurry): **OVERRIDE B-1** </End flashback> -- Oasis (in present, having reversed herself, while balancing the five candelabras): But Hereti-Corp was dissolved years ago. And Dr. Steve blew himself up. So that's all behind me now. And I'm still less than challenged. -- Feng: Torg. -- (Oasis loses balance) -- (The candelabras fall to the ground) -- (Oasis gets in Fengs face; glaring angrily at him) | Flag | ||||
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Riff: ***NOOOOO!*** Oasis: /*Override B-1!*/ -- Killum: Your precious Mark 5. A small sonic boom just shook it to pieces. One of our better weapons. Want to see what it does to people? -- (In the Building 13 warehouse, Bun-Bun staggers upright, bleeding; Cloney moves in for the kill; Schlock steps out from the cover of a box behind Aylee) Cloney (aka Aylee): I expected better of you, Bun-Bun. Dr. Irving Schlock: Ste-step away from the r-rabbit! -- Cloney (aka Aylee): Dr. Schlock. Heard you were dead. You *will* be if you keep pointing that whatever-it-is at me. -- Cloney (aka Aylee): Heh! Like you'd pull the trigger. -- (Schlock hesitates, sweating profusely in fear...) -- (...then pulls the trigger) -- (His weapon fires a flood of inflatable Bun-Buns) <***PUM!!!***> -- Cloney (aka Aylee): *WHAT?* <**pop**> <**pop**> (Bun-Bun leaps at the confused Cloney under the cover of the inflatable Bun-Buns) <**pop**> <**pop**> -- (Bun-Bun slices into Cloney's neck, then leaps away...) Cloney (aka Aylee): RARGH! -- (Bun-Bun stands on a crate high above Cloney; Cloney withdraws into her shell like a turtle) Bun-Bun: *I've got your number now, Gummy-Worm-Neck!* -- (Bun-Bun approaches Cloney's shell; all that is visible of Cloney are her eyes) Bun-Bun: *Time for some jerk on the half-shell!* -- (Cloney strikes out with two mouth-tentacles hidden in her beak; they pierce Bun-Bun's sides) -- (Bun-Bun staggers away) -- (Bun-Bun collapses among his inflatable copies) -- Groundhog's Shadow (worried): Well THIS ain't good! | Flag | ||||
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Caption: Hereti Corp surveillance van. hC operative #1 (off panel; inside the van): What the heck is she doing with all that ink? hC operative #2 (off panel; inside the van): Don't know. Don't want to know. -- hC operative #1 (off panel; inside the van): OK. I'll bite. If we have the tracer and transponder on her, we can track her from anywhere. Why do we have to baby-sit her? hC operative #2 (off panel; inside the van): The bosses don't want her running off and getting herself killed until they figure out a way to rectify her insanity. hC operative #1 (off panel; inside the van): Fix her being nuts. Right. I thought she couldn't be killed, but if it's such a worry, why not grab her and strap her down in some safe house? -- hC operative #3: I know more about Oasis than both of you punks so listen up. She's a trained dancer, Olympic quality gymnast, and a master of balanced throwing. She gets more dangerous when backed into a corner, and you *don't* want to piss her off. As far as "grabbing her," if she spots you, or anyone working for Hereti Corp, she drops whatever she's doing and /kills/ you, or anyone working for Hereti Corp. -- hC operative #1 (off panel): I thought that /*"Override B-1"*/ story was just to frighten little Hereti Corp kids! Time for some tunes. (he turns on the van's radio) -- Radio (or Oasis??): HERE I COME I COME I COME I COME HERE I COME I... (hC operative #1 holds his hands over his ears) -- hC operative #2: *Who left the volume cranked?* hC operative #1: Was that Oasis by that window? -- hC operative #2: *Did she see you?* hC operative #1: She's gone! hC operative #3: I don't have her anywhere in the apartment! -- <**CRASH!**> (Oasis lands on the top of the van -- blades drawn) | Flag | ||||
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(A butterfly knife cuts through the hC logo on the House of Cheese soda that Katie is holding) -- Katie: You almost stabbed me in the hand! /"Override B-1"/. Where you're programmed to want to kill "Hereti-Corp" even if it's just a logo on a fast-food restaurant. I feel safer already! Oasis: Brainwashed. Not programmed. -- Katie (angrily): What if somebody saw that? *You just pulled a knife on me!* Maybe I should *call a cop!* Oasis: Nobody saw. I think I know the "number one" thing you hate about me. -- <***Sucker PUNCH!***> -- Oasis (patting the slumped body of Katie on the back): Easy, sis! A train station is no place to pass out! <PAT> <PAT> -- Oasis (supporting Katie's limp body and walking off): Come on, let's walk the booze off. | Flag | ||||
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-- Riff (now across the hotel bed from Sasha): Wow, did they put a sign in the Hereti-Corp window saying *"Help Wanted: People Riff trust completely wanted to betray him, crush his spirit and try to shoot him in the face, apply inside"? Sasha: That would have been a really complicated 'help wanted' sign and the font would be too tiny to read from a distance. -- Sasha: In any case, the breakthrough in weaponization is from a man named Shankraft. Torg knows his work. -- Riff: "Shankraft", huh? So you really do want to help us against Hereti-Corp and now you're an open book. -- Sasha (opening the drapes in the hotel room, as if to let the light in): Completely. My last job was undercover as the wife to the top aid of Senator Zampedri. Not only to ensure the NASA-vote went our way, but also I helped them keep tabs on all the senators for blackmail options and even more nefarious things. -- Sasha (standing right in front of the window - the hC logo on her shirt now visible to anyone keeping an eye on the room...): The United States government is not exactly under Hereti-Corp's thumb, but the politicians are looking the other way. And they have no idea how much it's going to cost them. -- Riff (irritated): Because Schlock has just successfully created an orbital flux-satellite weapon and will use it to take on the world. Tell me something I /don't/ know. -- Sasha: /*I'm dead!*/ <**KISH**> (Sasha ducks out of the way just as a dagger flies through the window, just missing her) -- <***THUNK.***> (Riff is in shock as the dagger embeds into the table) -- (Through the window, a figure is seen on top of the roof of the neighboring building) -- Oasis (wearing a hoodie and a ninja mask, and holding a dagger in each hand): /*Override B-1!*/ | Flag | ||||
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-- Riff (down panel): Can you stop her? Torg (disguised as a girl; getting into the car; Gwynn in the driver seat): I don't know where she is and she's not responding! Nothing but radio silence. Override B-1 makes her into a guided missile of stabby death. Get out of there! -- Sasha (now wearing Riff's T-shirt): Are you talking to... /Torg is here?/ -- Riff (futzing at the window): Why do you want to know? Sasha (grinning): Just, putting you and Torg and Oasis in the same place, you must really trust me or be really dumb. -- Riff (still futzing at the window): Or the third option. The one where Oasis is on her way to kill you. Sasha. Oh. <*POP*> -- Riff (gesturing to the open window): Explosives deactivated. You're free to go, Sasha. | Flag | ||||
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-- Kusari (jumping in she elbows Oasis aside, slaps Bun-Bun away, and kicks Aylee in the face): *Stop!* Oasis *CANNOT* be killed at this stage! <**SLAP**> <**WAP**> -- Kusari (as she's getting punched in the face by Oasis): We are allies now, sister! Oasis: /*Override B-1!*/ <***POW!***> -- Bun-Bun (angrily bouncing back and forth between Kusari and Oasis by kicking them with his feet): /Screw you *both!*/ <**WAP**> <**WAP**> -- Riff (on the inflatable hoverbike, holding his inflatable laser cannon): /Who the hell do I *shoot?*/ -- Kiki (singing at the microphone): Twenty years of nifty darn comics, Twenty years of nifty darn comics, Twenty years of nifty darn co-omics, And Riff don't know who to shoot. Maybe he should check his notes? Maybe he should check his notes. Twenty years of nifty darn comics, And Riff shold [sic: should be "should"] go check his notes. Sung to the tune of "For he's a joly [sic: should be "jolly"] good fellow" really ridiculously quickly! === NOTE: For the record Kiki was singing ridiculously quickly, so much so that I had to slow her down. I may tweak that last caption panel... someday... /*TWENTY YEARS! WHO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!*/ *_0_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19970825>)|(_1_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19980825>)|(_2_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19990825>)|(_3_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20000825>)|(_4_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20010825>)|(_5_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20020825>)|(_6_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20030825>)|(_7_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20040825>)|(_8_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20050825>)|(_9_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20060825>)|(_10_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20070825>)|(_11_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20080825>)|(_12_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20090825>)|(_13_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20100825>)|(_14_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20110825>)|(_15_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20120825>)|(_16_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20130825>)|(_17_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20140825>)|(_18_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20150825>)|(_19_ <http://www.sluggy.com/comics/daily/160825>)| TWENTY!!!! /Stay tuned for what happens NEXT!/* | Flag |
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